Akatombo Web Log
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Back in the Saddle Again (hopefully for real this time)
It has been entirely too long since I’ve written anything here, or anywhere really. A combination of being extraordinarily busy all the time (I guess if it is a constant situation it isn’t really extraordinary is it?) and just not having inspiration to write anything that I thought visitors to the site would find interesting conspired to leave the site static. I’ve decided enough is enough. Until I start writing, I won’t be able to come up with anything to write about, so I’m making a commitment to try my best to write something on here daily, interesting or not. There is a quote from Van Gogh, which I believe came out of a letter to his brother that I find very appropriate to the situation:
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don’t know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, You can’t do a thing. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of ‘you can’t’ once and for all.
--via Wikiquote
Let’s just hope that this doesn’t mean I’m going to cut off my ear and mail it to a prostitute that I’m enamored with or something, the first problem is how would I choose? I’ve got some interesting stuff coming up for Akatombo Media, and I’ll likely be giving little hints to what I’ve got coming up as it develops. Anyway, I doubt anyone is still reading this after the lengthy dry spell, but I’ll try to write daily anyway, and maybe I can win some readers back. Finally, a minor stylistic change, I’m not going to write